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However, in spite of the budgetary constraints, Nightfall still needed some more equipment to begin filming: a tripod and a sound system. The sound equipment came from yet another Cabot House member, George M. Collins ’01. “George was really involved with a lot of VES projects and had some great equipment,” says Newkirk. “He was very helpful to us.” The sound equipment was supplemented by a surprise purchase by one of Newkirk’s roommates. Says Newkirk, “I came back from...
...major himself, who subsequently switched to physics. “It is a club for all people, including VES people, but it was made by non-VES people.” Newkirk found himself doing non-fiction filmmaking again when Ware and Newkirk worked out the conditions for Cabot House to buy the digital camera: 1) It would be for use by Cabot House students only, 2) Cabot House students would have to make three short films a year, and 3) someone would have to make two nonfiction films for Cabot House: a film of the House musical, which...
Newkirk then began work gathering footage of Cabot House seniors for the documentary. Over Spring Break, Lawler and a five-person crew went down to Cape Cod to film his screenplay of Angel Walk. They had a cast that included Harvard students and some members of the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG). The Screen Actors’ Guild has what they call a “Student Contract,” which allows student films to pay less than scale for actors. In the case of Angel Walk, this meant paying them nothing, since Lawler was personally responsible...
...mystically as the equipment had come together for the club, it disappeared. The camera was sitting in the room of one of the members in Cabot House, and the student left to go to the bathroom, believing he had locked his door. He returned to find the camera missing...
Unable to meet the requirement of finishing the Cabot House documentary, and having lost the House’s investment, the future of Nightfall seemed dismal. Fortunately, the student from whose room the camera was stolen was covered by his parents’ home-owner’s insurance, which insured everything as long as it was stolen from him, even if it didn’t belong to him. So, logistical problems with the insurance company aside, the money is forthcoming. Still, even though Cabot House would now be reimbursed for its loss, the House was far from certain...